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The current phase of deglobalization has started in 2008/9 well before Brexit and Trump were on the horizon. A decade later openness (world trade in percent of global production) is still below previous peak level with no apparent recovery

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Gartner and Jung Clothes for the Emperor or Can Research Learn from Undergraduate Macroeconomics? (Kyklos)

We ignore the negative effect of a global recession on a small open economy's exports, to keep things simple, and because this does not bear on our qualitative results. Van Bergeijk (2009) provides a quantification of this channel by looking at how major post 1980 financial crises affected import volumes of individual economies.

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